# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S669
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 669

ervice, our Council did not deem it necessary to take up active
articipation with it. But for two years (1948—1949) we have
Sidorsed CROP wholeheartedly, encouraged our pastors and con-
regations to contrfbute, have sent numerous letters of recom-
ndation, and in other ways asked our people to help with this
jumanitarian effort. Our people responded most gratifyingly. Next
the Methodist Church, the Missouri Synod contributed more
Soward CROP than any of the other eighteen participating de-
Enominations. In all, we have given more than $100,000 to CROP
fin 1948 and 1949. .
Refugee Work
It has been estimated that ten million refugees reside in the
Vestern zones and two million in the Eastern zone. The problem
how to provide for these unfortunate individuals has reached
emendous proportions and is no longer a matter which may
handled expeditiously by church groups, but a problem which
fmust be the concern of the entire world. Overtures to find a solu-
Bion to this extremely vexing question are still in tentative stages.
e near future will undoubtedly realize some suggestions for the
ssistance of the refugees — suggestions which may draw the
imergency Planning Council and its emergency aid into a picture
sf prominence.
Until now our Church has given individual aid to refugees
rimarily through the Evangelisches Hilfswerk facilities. However,
ther refugee assistance has also been rendered, as for example:
iving support to refugee pastors located in Bavaria in the amount
of $3,000; granting $10,000 (75,000 DM) to Dr. Antonie Nopitsch,
& a member of the Bavarian Hilfswerk staff for German Muetter-
heime; financing the trip to the USA for medical study of Dr. Bulle,
> who in June, 1950, will sail for India as medical missionary for
Missouri Synod missions; submitting $10,000 to Church World
Service for medical aid to refugees in Pakistan; and allocating
: $30,000 for the physical relief of refugees in all parts of Germany.
; This latter project is to be channeled through the Hilfswerk and
& the Free Church Committee as soon as feasible.

Chaplains
This report cannot be complete without mention of the out-
standing assistance rendered by our chaplains to the Council
Ein the execution of its work. In more than many instances where
E strict and complicated military regulations hampered the program
& of our relief work, chaplains came to our aid. In the early stages
} of our food shipments their help in distributing packages was inval-
uable. Without their assistance our European commissioners and
y Bad Boll representatives would have experienced considerable